

Hope once told an agent about an appearance: "The money's OK. If Crosby found a girl he thought was particularly good in bed, he'd promptly introduce her to Hope, and vice versa." "Hope and Crosby used to trade girlfriends - the bimbo, one-night-stand types so common on studio lots. Among its allegations as excerpted in this week's supermarket tabloid Star: Marx's book is the first to suggest such activities. An occasional magazine article touched on them, but Hope always brushed aside the reports publicly. Stories of Hope's sexual activities have circulated in Hollywood for decades, some privately told by the comedian himself. "It's believed Bob Hope has made love to more beautiful women than Errol Flynn, my Uncle Chico and Bing Crosby combined," Marx wrote. Bob Hope traded girlfriends with Bing Crosby and kept beautiful women in apartments near his home so he could visit them on his midnight strolls, Groucho Marx's son claims in an unauthorized biography.Ī Hope spokesman described "The Secret Life of Bob Hope" by Arthur Marx as "just a lot of old stuff, nothing new."Marx, whose book is being published this month, said the 90-year-old entertainer had an active extramarital sex life.
